The Concept of Human Subjectivity

This topic stated that human is a subject. That subjectivity essentially means that each man possesses the
freedom or the intrinsic capacity to look into the core of his being and ask himself questions about his
existence about the truth of his life and question that is complicated to be answer because it involves
about life and future which is out of the knowledge of human person and the smallest details in our life
that is rarely to be observed.
Subjectivity implies that man is in search of his authenticity or the answer to his query. But he looks for
this meaning not merely in the factual or the practical. This is because man is not a mere collection of
observable phenomena.
Since man is a subject, man is being for another. Man, in sense, is a moral being. But goodness is
something that we are free to choose. Evil, however, as exemplified by the fall of Adam, is also there. The
fact that there is nothing automatic in mans moral life implies that man is a subject is ultimately and
fundamentally governed by his nature.
To be a subject demands a self-examination. This is because man is morally obliged to know himself if he
wants to live well. Outside, there exists a crowd that temps every man and woman towards an inauthentic
existence. Being dissolved in them means being dissolved in they-self or the uncaring self that knows
about nothing except the pleasure of the crowd. It also means being immersed in routine where man loses
his wonder and the hunger of the human spirit.
Fundamentally man finds himself above the scheme of things. Thus, man must not simply go with the
flow, as if were some of a fallen nut dancing in the waves. Being a subject, he is an autonomous being,
free to determine himself to become the person he wants to be. Subjectivity, in this regard, implies human
possibilities. Possibilities for becoming, possibilities for self-realization.